Category
Bed & Breakfast
Rooms
1
Breakfast
not included
Bathroom
Shared
Description
This large, comfortable Victorian family house, is situated on Fox Hill in South London which descends from the Crystal Palace ridge. Fox Hill was immortalised by the French painter, Camille Pissarro who painted the view up the hill in 1870, and this can be seen in the National Gallery. Crystal Palace is the highest spot in London, and the site of a vast glass building relocated here after the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park of 1851.
The interesting and varied architecture around here dates from that time when the designers, engineers and craftsmen needed somewhere to live. At night it’s quiet and peaceful, occasionally the hooting of an owl breaks the stillness, chickens wake us in the morning and woodpeckers go noisily about their business during the day. On cooler evenings the air is perfumed by our wood-burning stove whereas in summer the gentle splashing of the waterfall in the pond heralds a soothing end to the day.
We’ve been running our B&B in this house since falling in love with the area: particularly the clean air, open skies, huge variety of trees (the lungs of a city) and unique vantage point over London. The house is furnished with textiles - some of them made by Sue - paintings, antique furniture and sculpture. The large comfortable beds are covered with quilts, some of them antique. The atmosphere is informal and guests are folded into the life of the house. The garden has been designed with a large pond to attract wildlife. Surrounded as we are by so many trees we have a lot of feathered visitors to our garden as well as squirrels and foxes. Jays, wrens, blackbirds, nuthatches, blue tits, long-tailed tits and great tits, herons and turtle doves are some of our regular visitors.
The interesting and varied architecture around here dates from that time when the designers, engineers and craftsmen needed somewhere to live. At night it’s quiet and peaceful, occasionally the hooting of an owl breaks the stillness, chickens wake us in the morning and woodpeckers go noisily about their business during the day. On cooler evenings the air is perfumed by our wood-burning stove whereas in summer the gentle splashing of the waterfall in the pond heralds a soothing end to the day.
We’ve been running our B&B in this house since falling in love with the area: particularly the clean air, open skies, huge variety of trees (the lungs of a city) and unique vantage point over London. The house is furnished with textiles - some of them made by Sue - paintings, antique furniture and sculpture. The large comfortable beds are covered with quilts, some of them antique. The atmosphere is informal and guests are folded into the life of the house. The garden has been designed with a large pond to attract wildlife. Surrounded as we are by so many trees we have a lot of feathered visitors to our garden as well as squirrels and foxes. Jays, wrens, blackbirds, nuthatches, blue tits, long-tailed tits and great tits, herons and turtle doves are some of our regular visitors.
Rates
Per Person (Single Room):
58 €
Double Rooms:
MIN: 105 € / MAX: 140 €
Fox Hill B&B
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SUE is an artist who works with textiles making quilts and wallhangings, and as well as being a British Tourist Authority guide has worked in the travel industry and at the Chelsea Physic Garden; she is passionate about her garden and nature which inspires her work.
TIM is a teacher and computer scientist who also works with a charity supporting disaffected young people. Both of us come from military family backgrounds and have lived and travelled around the world - this is reflected in our house, cooking, and garden which are furnished with antiques, textiles, sculptures and paintings.
We have welcomed visitors from all over the world - from South Korea, a remote village in Norway (they had never been to a city before), Mexico, Japan, Chile, an Australian couple who had spent 2 years sailing around the world, a forest ranger from Nebraska and a rangy Californian who loved toast with his porridge. One visitor from Northern Ireland described his harrowing experiences during the troubles; a Japanese lady in her 80s remembered that her late husband had travelled to London to see the Crystal Palace (burnt down in 1936) and had a reproduction of the painting of Fox Hill by Pissarro in their home. As one visitor from Switzerland put it - “How wonderful, the world comes to you !” We really enjoy the shifting kaleidoscope of our guests and learning about their lives - we have come across jobs we did not know exist (viz. a Bat Surveyor ?) !
We have two cats HUDSON and PHOEBE and two miniature wire-haired dachsunds TULA and BORIS who have taken up the duties of guarding the house, keeping the garden free of foxes and squirrels, digging holes in interesting places and generally making us laugh.
TIM is a teacher and computer scientist who also works with a charity supporting disaffected young people. Both of us come from military family backgrounds and have lived and travelled around the world - this is reflected in our house, cooking, and garden which are furnished with antiques, textiles, sculptures and paintings.
We have welcomed visitors from all over the world - from South Korea, a remote village in Norway (they had never been to a city before), Mexico, Japan, Chile, an Australian couple who had spent 2 years sailing around the world, a forest ranger from Nebraska and a rangy Californian who loved toast with his porridge. One visitor from Northern Ireland described his harrowing experiences during the troubles; a Japanese lady in her 80s remembered that her late husband had travelled to London to see the Crystal Palace (burnt down in 1936) and had a reproduction of the painting of Fox Hill by Pissarro in their home. As one visitor from Switzerland put it - “How wonderful, the world comes to you !” We really enjoy the shifting kaleidoscope of our guests and learning about their lives - we have come across jobs we did not know exist (viz. a Bat Surveyor ?) !
We have two cats HUDSON and PHOEBE and two miniature wire-haired dachsunds TULA and BORIS who have taken up the duties of guarding the house, keeping the garden free of foxes and squirrels, digging holes in interesting places and generally making us laugh.
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